{"product_id":"writing-back-susan-winnett-9781421407401","title":"Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eExplore the shock of the new--and the familiar--experienced by well-known expatriate writers when they returned to the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. \u003ci\u003eWriting Back\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWriting Back\u003c\/i\u003e examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the \"returning absentee\" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Winnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 142140740X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421407401\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013","brand":"Susan Winnett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637219279103,"sku":"9781421407401","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cef603f8-d7fe-42d0-b694-358e2b4338e3.jpg?v=1765114738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-back-susan-winnett-9781421407401","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}